One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle-not unusual in this line of work. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. The 'slow horses,' as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers.

DEAD LIONS by Mick Herron - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by Mick Herron. Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today * Publishers Weekly *ĭelightful. Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton * Sunday Telegraph * Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years * Metro * I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next * Crime Fiction Lover * Mick Herron is the real deal * Irish Times * The finest new crime series this Millennium * Mail on Sunday * Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: *. Publisher: John Murray Press ISBN: 9781399803069 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 270 g Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 28 mm MEDIA REVIEWS

'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day.

Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sundayįrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

Dead Lions by Mick Herron